The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-07-14
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d head on their cats.
Lord Lansdownes estate in County /
Kerry, Ireland, has about 81, 900 acres. !
The graves of Wendell Phillips and
his wife, at Milton Center. are un- I
marked by any monument whatever.
If the natives of the Friendly Islands |
suffer from spreading liberation they
have the limb cut off with sharp |
shelLs -
A park of ninety-two acres has been
secured on the shore of Lake Ontario,
near Niagara, for Canadian Chau-
tauqua.'
Even English writers in English pa
pers assert that the Americans are the
best dressed women at the Queens
drawing-rooms.
Miriam Edison, daughter of the
great electrician, is a pupil at Hills
Riding Academy at Roseville, a fash
ionable suburb of Newark, n. j.
Lady Randolph Churchill, in a letter
to New York relative, says that she
hopes to be in America with her hus-
band for a month or two this year.
Mrs. Langtry gives the best little
dinners in New York. it is said; but
she pays her cook more than MEM
ber of the Cabinet gets for his services.
The bronze figure of William Penn,
to surmount the tower of the Philadel-
phia public building, will be thirty-six
feet high. 1t will take year to COM
plete it
Secretary Endicott has decided to do
away with the practice of making mil
itary prisoners carry heavy logs for
punishment. He considers the custom
barbarous.
F.. Petrified Holsters, clans, turtles and
the like are found in great abundance
in the Santa Catalina Mountains in
Arizona at a height of nearly ten thou
sand feet above the level of the sea-
The Rev John r. Paxton of the
West Forty-Second Street Presby-
terian church breaches TO congrega--
tion whose wealth aggregates over
5000, 100000. His salary is $4,000.
Mount Abram, in Franklin county,
Maine, is said to be visited by thun-
der shower every day in summer, and
lightning can be seen playing about
its head at some time every warm day
There is beautiful uncertainty
about the value of the copper cents OF
Mexico. In Vera Cruz, for instance,
il takes 1O4 of them to make 81, while
in chihuahua ninety-hve will pass for
81.
Millionaire Flood has recently in
closed his San Francisco palace with
bronze fence which cost $50, 200, and
he is now adding two large bronze
gates. each weighing 1000 pounds,
and which will cost $15, 600 more.
The M.kado of Japan has issued
decree enforcing the adoption OF the
European style of dress for japanese
ladies. This order will not oblige
ladies who sing in the ..Mikado' opera
TO throw away their present outfits,
however.
Kate Claxton is said to be the most
irrepressible traveller on the road.
Sitting up all night in IA freight car, or
getting out of burning hotel at 8
o'clock in the morning, is all the same
to her. She is always pretty, fresh,
Jolly and well. Kate would make
somebody model wife.
The human hair varies in thickness
from 1850 to 1-600 of aninch. Blonde
hair is the finest and red the coarsest.
A German investigator finds that in
four heads of hair of equal weight the
red one contains about 10000 hairs.
fhe black 103, 900, the brown los, 900,
and the blonde lac. 900.
James Lick died in San Francisco
ten years ago. leaving in the hands OF
trustees an estate of about $4,000, 600,
TO be dividcd among various charitable
and scientific societies. The estate
is vet unsettled, but the trustees have
drawn over 100000 in salaries >and
have paid out nearly $4,000 in law.
yer's fees.
A Chinese doctor in one of our north.
ern counties has treated pneumonia
patient by rubbing her chest with hot
dinner plate and piercing a row OF
portfolios in her abdomen. The per-
forated patient died, though the doctor
says this old treatment of pneumonia
was discovered in China 250 yeaIj
ago.-San Francisco Alta.
Phillips Brooks declares that Web
ster, Lincoln, and Beecher were tht
three greatest Americans of the cen
tury. Now, the superstitious viii
please observe that each had seven let
ters in his name, and, what is more
remarkable, that three times seven ar
webster, and Lincoln all attained theil
majorityLLJe.
Paul Bremond left New Y ork to seel
his fortune in Texas more than fort,
years ago. The Texas Central Rail
road owes its origin and construction
to his energy and ability Mr.. Bre
mond is now well advanced in age, bu
still retains his activity. Mrs. Bre
L. e.
who has made name as poet ant
writer of marked talent.
Miss Anita Lucille Cody, daughte
of Buffalo Bill, !" is beautiful bruno
of % summers, is tall, has prett
figure, and is viyacious and well edu
Gated. Her father telegraphed for he
to come to London the day after Quee
Victoria paid the Wild West foys
visit. When she arrived in New Y or
she received letter from her fathe
saying that she will be received a
court.
The wife of a Nevada (Mo.) ma
had ten young chickens almost bi
enough to fry. One day at noon
hawk pounced down upon them an
carried off one. The hawk did not g
far until lot of crows got after hin
To the woman's surprise the next nigi
at roosting time the lost chicken cam
up. 1t still bears the marks of tn
hawk, but it is able to stand up to il
dough pile.
London society is making much ad
over Buffalo Bill. He is invited to il
Vulnerable luncheons. dinners, and n
ceptiops, and is becoming reguls
4showfng swell" If an America
cares to be taken up by London societ,
he should go over there dressed like
cowboy and call himself ..Rattlesnak
Joe." ..Elkhorn Charley" Bowl
Knife Jim," s.Dead-Shot Dick,
something else equally suggestive
the American frontier.
There is tradition that cave ne,
Calhoun, Ga, contains vast quantiti
of silver. 1t is said that the Indial
were accustomed to go into the ca'
and chop off great chunks of pure o
with tomahawks. When forced
leave the country they rolled hu,